In a 2017 interview by The Four Oh Five, Gareth Campesinos! said:
Certainly our most dour album is Hello Sadness, which is obviously a break up album and I think very much rooted in a sense of devastation, but maybe to an extent that it’s almost an out-the-other-side and comedic album.
“Hello Sadness” and the track “To Tundra” were both originally titled “A Body,” but would later be renamed to “Hello Sadness” and “To Tundra” respectively.